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It is a truth universally acknowledged that IKEA, while a delightful place to pick up a nice rug and enjoy some meatballs, is the ruiner of relationships and the destroyer of sanities.

First it traps you in a confusing, never-ending loop of showrooms and aisles of plates, and you turn on your partner in hangry rage.

Then you brave the journey home, lugging a clearly-too-big set of shelves on the tube.

Finally it comes the time to put your shelves together.

And that’s where IKEA ruins you. It confuses you with parts A and screw C. Nothing makes sense. These shelves cannot be made. You shove together bits in rage and breakdown in tears when it all falls apart.

But now, that final, relationship and mental health destroying part may never come again.

Because IKEA is now releasing furniture that doesn’t require parts A and screw C. Instead, each section clicks together like a puzzle piece.

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They retailer’s come up with a new type of joint called a wedge dowel, which gets rid of the need for screws and traditional fixings on wooden items.

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The furniture’s panels come with small ribbed protrusions, which easily slot into pre-drilled holes in the panels they’re meant to connect to.

There’s no need for glue or screws, and the bits can be taken apart and reassembled as many times as you fancy.

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IKEA representative Jesper Brodin said: ‘IKEA furniture typically contains quite a lot of fittings. We see some challenges in the time and interest in doing that.

‘So we wondered what would happen if we took them out totally.

‘We are now into the implementation phase of making it possible for you to click your furniture together.

‘I tried it myself and actually put together a table which used to take me 24 minutes to assemble but instead took me three minutes to click together.’

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IKEA now intends to roll out their snazzy new click-together system across all its furniture products, starting with the wooden Lisabo table which is currently on sale.

Thank you, IKEA. Thank you for not screwing us over with rage-inducing flat pack furniture.